Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...global outbreak of syphilis and gonorrhea spawned by World War II came as no surprise to the medical world. Over the past five centuries, there had been massive flare-ups of venereal disease-the worst of them during wartime.* But the World War II epidemic was cut short by the 1945 discovery that both diseases could be cured by penicillin. The numbers of new cases reported annually in the U.S. declined through the 1950s and early 1960s, and venereologists hoped that the twin scourges would soon be wiped...
...young in any period but skillfully developed now by the example of such public relations geniuses as Abbie Hoffman. Some, of course, costume themselves in the Stars and Stripes with no overt political intent. But however faddish the flag fashions are, they implicitly contain a put-on or a flare of adolescent rebellion. "Desecrating the flag is just fun," explains Beth Spencer, 21, of Berkeley. "It's burned, torn or worn for the sheer joy of doing something naughty and getting away with it." Says Carl Boockholdt, a boutique operator in Indianapolis: "It could be a parody type of feeling...
...Calvin Morris, a J, black who is Chicago director of Operation Breadbasket, disagrees: "We're 1 in store for a lot of trouble. People are I tense and mistrustful, and the police are tense and mistrustful." In the De? troit area, Wayne County Sheriff William Lucas expects some flare-ups in the inner city but worse incidents in suburbs with smoldering racial problems; River Rouge had three nights of racial disturbances in April. In Indianapolis, law enforcement men expect things to be quiet. St. Louis police say they are keeping their fingers crossed. THE SOUTH. The Miami eruption...
...Flare-Dps and Foul-Ups. Some flare-ups were inevitable−and some foulups. In Phnom-Penh, hand-lettered signs were pasted to several buildings one morning with a message addressed to Americans: "South Vietnamese soldiers have committed cruel acts on the Cambodian population−pillaging, violations of women, burning, killing. Now they do not want to leave our territory." Officials claimed that the signs were the work of Viet Cong sympathizers−though the Phnom-Penh regime has so aroused anti-Vietnamese feelings in recent weeks that almost anyone could have been responsible...
British Director John Boorman is a film maker of stylistic skill and visual flare. He transformed a more or less routine police thriller into Point Blank, a free-for-all exercise in cinematic pyrotechnics. His Hell in the Pacific was a stunningly filmed but intellectually shallow allegory about man's inhumanity to man. His new film, Leo the Last, appears to have been made with a greater degree of directorial freedom than he has ever had; he even shares screen credit for the script. The result is a stunning but simplistic political parable that might have benefited from...